You can't jerk gas service from people who *AREN'T PAYING* during winter because it's considered inhuman to condemn people to freezing to death.
Exactly why is it acceptable to condemn millions to being spam zombies - affecting everyone on the Internet - through no fault of their own, by an unaccountable monopoly beholden only to its stockholders?
Hmm? Where's your answer to that?
There are some situations that the free market can't solve on its own. This is one.
The implementation of this process is the same net effect as the gas company shutting off people's heat in the middle of the winter. It's burdensome and causes harm to the public at large through security issues. Other posters have pointed out how SP2 is denied via this process. The non-presence of SP2 on XP installations legitimately may be considered a security problem, given the many improvements incorporated in that service pack.
This is why regulations exist to not permit such things to happen in legally sanctioned monopolies, such as utility companies. In most jurisdictions, the gas company can't shut off the heat in the middle of the winter, even if you don't pay the bill.
So why is Microsoft, convicted monopolist operating under court-ordered sanctions, allowed to do this?
No, I take offense to blaming 'conservative' groups when, if she had just had kept her trap shut, none of this would have happened.
There are wackos who complain about everything. She gave them the opportunity to mug the video game industry in pursuit of her own political ambitions. The scurrying they are doing right now reminds me of nothing more than the scurrying McCarthy's HUAC targets would do, pre-testimony.
But no, it's the conservative groups, right? Where's the anti-Hillary vitriol? I note the PATRIOT act or DMCA didn't get rid of GTA, but Hillary sure did.
1. It's not like the whole thing is going to be shoved back into a closet even if all the commercial ventures flounder. The only thing we lose is the annoying advertising, and the annoying newbies who pollute the net with their spyware-driven spam - that they cannot remove.
2. Having fiber to my door does nothing good for me when all these idiots are filling that bandwidth with spam and scripted ssh login attempts.
With the demise of dial-up ISPs and ultimately AOL, this is the first opportunity to undo the muddying of the Internet.
I can't help wondering if spyware and spam aren't good things inasmuch as they are forces directly working against the commercialization of the net. I've roundly cursed both in the past. They do have an effect though: they decrease user comfort with security, and irritate the crap out of people. Same thing that annoying web ads do, actually. So much so that laymen withdraw from the net. This can't have positive consequences for advertisers or commercial ventures.
It will be quite sweet if they turn out to be the forces that ultimately restore the Internet to its proper function.
Why would I care? Why would any geek care? The infrastructure is in place. The commercial vendors that drove it can go to hell at this point for all I care.
10 years ago we wanted the infrastructure investment. It's already done. I don't want their content, truthfully. The stuff on Usenet was interesting enough if I was concerned what other people thought.
Internet advertisers are selling me and my family _nothing_. If this causes them to disappear, great, i'm happy about it.
You agreed as part of the license to pay $xx for each copy of an executable you distributed. We are talking CP/M days here.
One of the reasons Microsoft was successful in this market, as was Borland, was that their licenses were royalty-free after they realized that this was a wedge issue to secure market share.
Within the measure of current technology in 1973-4, let us say, all of those measures were tried back then. The motivator was the Arab oil embargoes intended to punish the West for supporting Israel. At the same time, lead catalysts were restricted for environmental reasons, resulting in all new cars from the 1976 model year on being unleaded-only.
There was another gasoline shortage in 1979.
The popularity of the US government response, which was to mandate changes to automobiles, compel odd/even license plate rationing, and make a lot of noise about alternative energy sources, can be partially seen in the 1980 election results.
A _LOT_ of the people (who aren't full-time students, who appear to have loads of time to play online games) turn out to be disabled or otherwise homebound people.
This includes the unemployed, housewives, etc. A particularly strong group is the late-30s to late-40s female in an unhappy relationship. Note a common thread amongst these groups is a desire for escape from their current surroundings.
Think of the MMORPG as a very poor form of therapy. Crack for the despondent.
Every 508 compliant site i've seen is first and foremost "kinda sorta 508 compliant" and furthermore is static. I have never seen a dynamic government site that is fully 508 compliant.
There is a waiver process that plays a part here. I know of one significant government site that is under a lengthy waiver that will probably last until the backend technology is replaced.
A truly 508 compliant site would be great for screen readers but would not please the sighted visually, by today's standards. This is why there is no mad rush to make 508 compliant commercial sites. This is also why most US government sites look like something from 1997 or so.
This is one good reason why Flash is evil, for instance. Amongst other technologies such as spammy Java scroll bars on websites and Java-based menu systems. None of these are 508 compliant. Sure, the Flash fanboys will come out now and say "you can use it in a disabled-friendly fashion" but no one does.
The Pythons have been making fun of his death since his passing in 1989, even to the extent of doing an entire TV special with his theoretical urn on the coffee table, spilling it out, in fact.
Yes, but you get to live with old software. If that makes you happy, fine, but I can't do it. I need the latest and greatest of many things for compliance, and if I were using Debian I would have to roll it myself in many cases. Gentoo does it for me.
Stable is fine. Unstable sucks wind. That's the point, it's unstable.
I've never hosed a Gentoo system with emerge in stable. I have had some marathon sessions fixing particular fine points, but the system always recovers. Even with buggy kernel support of a chipset (Nforce), and constant panics thereof in the midst of marathon compile sessions, emerge kept trying its damnedest to keep it patched up.
Beside which, you can just erase the portage tree and pull a new one down if you hose it up too much.
If it takes you a weekend to install Gentoo, you should be using another distro.
Really.
If you want to know how to install it fast, learn about USE flags. Then, once you have a couple of systems ready to go, learn about distcc. Everything gets zippy then.
My systems are far more up to date than any other distro could manage, even in the stable branch, which is what I use. Their release schedules are generally on the order of months or years. I'm getting the newest stuff constantly, after it passes through unstable, and I never have to reinstall.
In terms of speed, I compile my own kernel and all software for my arch, not for some generic i586 target. There are advantages to this. The system is zippy enough that it's worth the time to compile.
If you don't want to bother, just grab Fedora/Mandrake/Ubuntu and stop knocking my distro. You weren't meant for Gentoo. Deal with it.
If their guy had been elected, a similar purge would occur going the other way. I think they'd be upset with their guy if he _didn't_ get rid of the nasty Republicans in high places, no?
I'm totally glad Bush is removing Democrats from appointed positions. They don't belong there in a Republican administration. Go win an election if you want to choose who represents this country.
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You can't jerk gas service from people who *AREN'T PAYING* during winter because it's considered inhuman to condemn people to freezing to death.
Exactly why is it acceptable to condemn millions to being spam zombies - affecting everyone on the Internet - through no fault of their own, by an unaccountable monopoly beholden only to its stockholders?
Hmm? Where's your answer to that?
There are some situations that the free market can't solve on its own. This is one.
In the United States, any monopoly that lacks government sanction is illegal.
But it is.
The implementation of this process is the same net effect as the gas company shutting off people's heat in the middle of the winter. It's burdensome and causes harm to the public at large through security issues. Other posters have pointed out how SP2 is denied via this process. The non-presence of SP2 on XP installations legitimately may be considered a security problem, given the many improvements incorporated in that service pack.
This is why regulations exist to not permit such things to happen in legally sanctioned monopolies, such as utility companies. In most jurisdictions, the gas company can't shut off the heat in the middle of the winter, even if you don't pay the bill.
So why is Microsoft, convicted monopolist operating under court-ordered sanctions, allowed to do this?
No, I take offense to blaming 'conservative' groups when, if she had just had kept her trap shut, none of this would have happened.
There are wackos who complain about everything. She gave them the opportunity to mug the video game industry in pursuit of her own political ambitions. The scurrying they are doing right now reminds me of nothing more than the scurrying McCarthy's HUAC targets would do, pre-testimony.
But no, it's the conservative groups, right? Where's the anti-Hillary vitriol? I note the PATRIOT act or DMCA didn't get rid of GTA, but Hillary sure did.
What kind of warped parallel universe do you live in?
Nothing has too high of a price.
Vince Foster would tell us all about that. If he weren't dead, of course.
There are two reasons why i'm not short sighted.
1. It's not like the whole thing is going to be shoved back into a closet even if all the commercial ventures flounder. The only thing we lose is the annoying advertising, and the annoying newbies who pollute the net with their spyware-driven spam - that they cannot remove.
2. Having fiber to my door does nothing good for me when all these idiots are filling that bandwidth with spam and scripted ssh login attempts.
With the demise of dial-up ISPs and ultimately AOL, this is the first opportunity to undo the muddying of the Internet.
I can't help wondering if spyware and spam aren't good things inasmuch as they are forces directly working against the commercialization of the net. I've roundly cursed both in the past. They do have an effect though: they decrease user comfort with security, and irritate the crap out of people. Same thing that annoying web ads do, actually. So much so that laymen withdraw from the net. This can't have positive consequences for advertisers or commercial ventures.
It will be quite sweet if they turn out to be the forces that ultimately restore the Internet to its proper function.
Why would I care? Why would any geek care? The infrastructure is in place. The commercial vendors that drove it can go to hell at this point for all I care.
10 years ago we wanted the infrastructure investment. It's already done. I don't want their content, truthfully. The stuff on Usenet was interesting enough if I was concerned what other people thought.
Internet advertisers are selling me and my family _nothing_. If this causes them to disappear, great, i'm happy about it.
You agreed as part of the license to pay $xx for each copy of an executable you distributed. We are talking CP/M days here.
One of the reasons Microsoft was successful in this market, as was Borland, was that their licenses were royalty-free after they realized that this was a wedge issue to secure market share.
Only if you turn BIOS caching on. If you don't, then it's the actual ROM.
Logic steps in here: get an old system with 640k or 512k of RAM. Where exactly was that ROM going to get copied to? Nowhere, that's where.
Within the measure of current technology in 1973-4, let us say, all of those measures were tried back then. The motivator was the Arab oil embargoes intended to punish the West for supporting Israel. At the same time, lead catalysts were restricted for environmental reasons, resulting in all new cars from the 1976 model year on being unleaded-only.
There was another gasoline shortage in 1979.
The popularity of the US government response, which was to mandate changes to automobiles, compel odd/even license plate rationing, and make a lot of noise about alternative energy sources, can be partially seen in the 1980 election results.
The system BIOS is fixed in memory at F000:0 upon boot. It's a ROM. The CMOS is nonvolatile RAM.
Rubbing alcohol and a q-tip.
Try not to leave any lint behind.
Stop being a fucking asshole.
Must be genetic in your case.
A _LOT_ of the people (who aren't full-time students, who appear to have loads of time to play online games) turn out to be disabled or otherwise homebound people.
This includes the unemployed, housewives, etc. A particularly strong group is the late-30s to late-40s female in an unhappy relationship. Note a common thread amongst these groups is a desire for escape from their current surroundings.
Think of the MMORPG as a very poor form of therapy. Crack for the despondent.
Every 508 compliant site i've seen is first and foremost "kinda sorta 508 compliant" and furthermore is static. I have never seen a dynamic government site that is fully 508 compliant.
There is a waiver process that plays a part here. I know of one significant government site that is under a lengthy waiver that will probably last until the backend technology is replaced.
A truly 508 compliant site would be great for screen readers but would not please the sighted visually, by today's standards. This is why there is no mad rush to make 508 compliant commercial sites. This is also why most US government sites look like something from 1997 or so.
This is one good reason why Flash is evil, for instance. Amongst other technologies such as spammy Java scroll bars on websites and Java-based menu systems. None of these are 508 compliant. Sure, the Flash fanboys will come out now and say "you can use it in a disabled-friendly fashion" but no one does.
If you're such an enemy of the US you should keep your weapon clean. You never know when you might have to use it, as you rightly point out.
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They are captives of their own ideas: they cannot think out of their self-imposed box, therefore opposing viewpoints must be squelched by derision.
And they call the WalMart greeters idiots...
He is an ex-Python!
The Pythons have been making fun of his death since his passing in 1989, even to the extent of doing an entire TV special with his theoretical urn on the coffee table, spilling it out, in fact.
Yes, but you get to live with old software. If that makes you happy, fine, but I can't do it. I need the latest and greatest of many things for compliance, and if I were using Debian I would have to roll it myself in many cases. Gentoo does it for me.
Stable is fine. Unstable sucks wind. That's the point, it's unstable.
I've never hosed a Gentoo system with emerge in stable. I have had some marathon sessions fixing particular fine points, but the system always recovers. Even with buggy kernel support of a chipset (Nforce), and constant panics thereof in the midst of marathon compile sessions, emerge kept trying its damnedest to keep it patched up.
Beside which, you can just erase the portage tree and pull a new one down if you hose it up too much.
If it takes you a weekend to install Gentoo, you should be using another distro.
Really.
If you want to know how to install it fast, learn about USE flags. Then, once you have a couple of systems ready to go, learn about distcc. Everything gets zippy then.
My systems are far more up to date than any other distro could manage, even in the stable branch, which is what I use. Their release schedules are generally on the order of months or years. I'm getting the newest stuff constantly, after it passes through unstable, and I never have to reinstall.
In terms of speed, I compile my own kernel and all software for my arch, not for some generic i586 target. There are advantages to this. The system is zippy enough that it's worth the time to compile.
If you don't want to bother, just grab Fedora/Mandrake/Ubuntu and stop knocking my distro. You weren't meant for Gentoo. Deal with it.
If their guy had been elected, a similar purge would occur going the other way. I think they'd be upset with their guy if he _didn't_ get rid of the nasty Republicans in high places, no?
I'm totally glad Bush is removing Democrats from appointed positions. They don't belong there in a Republican administration. Go win an election if you want to choose who represents this country.